Embroidery

Freehand embroidery does not always turn out as beautiful as you thought it would.

I made a rice heat-pack a while back and decided today to embroider some instructions on it so I don't have look them up every time I use it.

It is supposed to say "Microwave for 1 min 30 sec".In the middle of embroidering I forgot which direction 3 is written, apparently.

Dreadlock

A two months ago I put in a cute little hair wrap.

It was so cute and I loved it, but after two months my hair had grown out about and inch and the string was starting to separate, so it was time to take it out.

I took out the hair wrap today, and the inch of hair closest to my scalp was legitimately a dread lock.

As someone who only showers twice a week and doesn't brush her hair, I've had my fair share of "dreadlocks", but nothing compare to the rats nest that this is. The picture doesn't do it justice, but it is a solid knot of hair. I don't know how this happened, but after trying for 15 minutes to un-knot it, I gave up. 

Now I'll have a short, ugly little dread lock in until I can douse it with enough conditioner to loosen the knots.

Chihuahua

Today was a beautiful sunny summer day, so David and I went on a walk around the neighborhood. We were casually talking, having a grand old time laughing at how I can't jump more than 3 inches off the ground, when David pointed to the side and said, "Look at that little dog."

Fun fact: I'm easily frightened by seeing things I don't expect to see, like people in stairwells (I scared my neighbor when I screamed at seeing her) or cats when I turn the corner.

So when David tells me to look at the little dog, I jump, wave my arms, and shriek loudly, as I generally do when I get spooked. My freaking out scared the seconds-ago-calm dog, and it started running at us and barking.

Keep in mind, the dog is a chihuahua.

We went back afterwards for pictures.

The dog is charging us, and David and I are both surprised and scared for a second. It pauses in its charge, just long enough for me to calm down and stay quiet. David on the other hand, who started off calm, is now shrieking and running away. This riles up the chihuahua and it starts nipping at his ankles. David takes off like a bullet running a block away.

I stayed where I was, just acting calm, and the chihuahua went back into the yard and left me alone. 

I don't think the dog is violent, but my initial surprise riled it up enough for it to shock us and it was just a downward spiral that resulted in a good laugh for the next 10 minutes at how wimpy we are.

Pine Cone in the Dark

Pine cones look a lot like dog poop when you are in a park with no flashlight.

David and I had a little outdoor movie extravaganza in the park last night.

When we went to set up our blankets and pillows, we were 99% positive that this little guy was a piece of dog poop.

Upon further investigation , it wasn't.

Car Door

Make sure that if you park your car on a slanted hill you really slam the door shut. If you just lightly close it, you will come back an hour later to find the door WIDE open. You'll have a mini panic attack because you'll think someone stole everything valuable in the car (which is, like, everything valuable that you own plus your pass to Comic-Con for that day), only to find out that the people of Encinitas aren't thieves and really you just didn't close the door all the way so it swung back open because you parked on a slant.

This is how we came back to find the car (David is inside, shame-faced that he didn't close it all the way.)

Spartan Race

I ran a Spartan Race recently. It's an 8+ mile race that has 25 obstacles along the way, including many with mud.

When I got back to my grandma's house to shower I didn't have any q-tips, so I used a tissue and swabbed out my ear. This was that tissue.

Nasty!!!

If you ever do a Spartan race, don't forget to clean out your ears after! So much mud in the ear canal!

Also, if you are fair skinned (like me) don't forget to put sunscreen on your chest and the inner part of your shoulder. How do you forget those areas? I don't know. I put sunscreen everywhere, so I thought. 

But if you do forget to sunscreen somewhere, you'll get some streaky tan lines from the mud that was caked on you the whole race.

Fun fun fun.

But really, it was fun.